The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland
A detailed, 1:10,500-scale, surficial geology and glacial geomorphology map of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands in southeast Iceland depicts the landsystem imprint of Holocene glacier fluctuations, volcanogenic outburst floods and recent (post-1990) climate-induced rapi...
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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/26577 2023-05-15T16:21:38+02:00 The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland Everest, Jeremy D Bradwell, Tom Jones, Lee Hughes, Leanne British Geological Survey Biological and Environmental Sciences orcid:0000-0003-0947-3309 2017 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26577 https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2017.1407272 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/26577/1/Everest_etal_JournalofMaps_2017.pdf en eng Taylor and Francis Everest JD, Bradwell T, Jones L & Hughes L (2017) The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland. Journal of Maps , 13 (2), pp. 936-945. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2017.1407272 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26577 doi:10.1080/17445647.2017.1407272 WOS:000424375500001 2-s2.0-85049892970 503683 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/26577/1/Everest_etal_JournalofMaps_2017.pdf © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Journal of Maps This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Deglaciation landsystem Iceland geomorphology Journal Article VoR - Version of Record 2017 ftunivstirling https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2017.1407272 2023-02-02T23:17:15Z A detailed, 1:10,500-scale, surficial geology and glacial geomorphology map of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands in southeast Iceland depicts the landsystem imprint of Holocene glacier fluctuations, volcanogenic outburst floods and recent (post-1990) climate-induced rapid ice-front retreat. The map is based on field survey data in combination with 2012 airborne LiDAR data, 2009–2012 terrestrial LiDAR data and 2007 colour aerial photography. The base digital elevation model (DEM) is compiled from an ice-cap wide airborne LiDAR dataset. The mapped glacial landforms are dominated by sequences of recessional moraines laid down in the mid-Holocene, the Little Ice Age, and the last ∼100 years; the state of landform preservation generally decreasing with age. Interspersed with glaciofluvial sedimentation associated with typical ice-marginal retreat sequences is key geomorphological evidence of high-magnitude volcanogenic outburst floods (jökulhlaups) associated with the eruptions of Öraefajökull in 1362 and 1727 CE. Ice-front retreat has accelerated since c.2005 leaving a rapidly evolving buried-ice landscape in front of Virkisjökull-Falljökull – including an ice-cored esker, a large ice-floored (supraglacial) lake, and numerous actively forming kettle holes and ice caverns. This map could act as a ‘reference frame’ for geomorphologists studying the temporal evolution of glacial landform-sediment assemblages undergoing rapid change. Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Ice cap Iceland University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository Falljökull ENVELOPE(-16.770,-16.770,63.976,63.976) Svínafellsjökull ENVELOPE(-16.823,-16.823,64.021,64.021) Journal of Maps 13 2 936 945 |
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A detailed, 1:10,500-scale, surficial geology and glacial geomorphology map of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands in southeast Iceland depicts the landsystem imprint of Holocene glacier fluctuations, volcanogenic outburst floods and recent (post-1990) climate-induced rapid ice-front retreat. The map is based on field survey data in combination with 2012 airborne LiDAR data, 2009–2012 terrestrial LiDAR data and 2007 colour aerial photography. The base digital elevation model (DEM) is compiled from an ice-cap wide airborne LiDAR dataset. The mapped glacial landforms are dominated by sequences of recessional moraines laid down in the mid-Holocene, the Little Ice Age, and the last ∼100 years; the state of landform preservation generally decreasing with age. Interspersed with glaciofluvial sedimentation associated with typical ice-marginal retreat sequences is key geomorphological evidence of high-magnitude volcanogenic outburst floods (jökulhlaups) associated with the eruptions of Öraefajökull in 1362 and 1727 CE. Ice-front retreat has accelerated since c.2005 leaving a rapidly evolving buried-ice landscape in front of Virkisjökull-Falljökull – including an ice-cored esker, a large ice-floored (supraglacial) lake, and numerous actively forming kettle holes and ice caverns. This map could act as a ‘reference frame’ for geomorphologists studying the temporal evolution of glacial landform-sediment assemblages undergoing rapid change. |
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The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland |
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The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland |
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The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland |
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The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland |
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The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland |
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geomorphology of svínafellsjökull and virkisjökull-falljökull glacier forelands, southeast iceland |
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Everest JD, Bradwell T, Jones L & Hughes L (2017) The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland. Journal of Maps , 13 (2), pp. 936-945. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2017.1407272 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26577 doi:10.1080/17445647.2017.1407272 WOS:000424375500001 2-s2.0-85049892970 503683 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/26577/1/Everest_etal_JournalofMaps_2017.pdf |
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